Academic Coaching

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Academic Coaching

• What can students expect?

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Just what does an Academic Coach do?

• Concentrates on student academic goals for the
  year
• Is a students advocate
• Helps with students academic needs
• Note taking and studying
• Reviewing
• Test preparation
• Scheduling
• Organization
• Stresses student focus

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Focus on what?

• Academic coaches help plan the year. With
  assignment calendars for each month, the student
  can see what is already behind and look toward
  the future.

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Whats an Advocate

• The Academic Coach is an advocate when going to
  bat for a student!
• How you ask?
• Staying in constant contact with individual
  teachers
• Weekly reports to parents
• Promoting students needs

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Taking Notesstudying?
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Academic Coaches Help Students

• In reviewing Note Taking Skills
• Offering tips on individual study skills
• In the classroom
• At home
• Class preparation
• Taking tests

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• Students do not always understand the right
  material to study. Academic coaches can help in
  organizing materials and discovering alternative
  study methods so that test preparation is much
  easier.

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I already know how to study!!!!!

• Often students think they know what to do but
  find that focusing on the material is difficult.
  
• Academic Coaches can help students find the
  appropriate methods for learning the most
  material during a study session.
• Knowing what to study and when is important
  therefore with constant reminders, forgetting
  is less likely.

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Reviewingsimpleor is it?

• Academic Coaches usually know when a review is
  necessary and can guide students in knowing what
  and when to study!

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Scheduling

• Its essential for students to understand the
  importance of keeping up with their daily
  schedules which includes class comprehension and
  homework.
• Tutorial attendance is necessary for improvement.
• Student/Teacher conferences are significant to
  everyday progress.

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Schedules are easy to
followor are they?

• Coaches
• help
• 
  students
• 
  discover
• order
• Every students has a schedule. Academic Coaches
  help maintain a calendar so the whole picture
  can be seen.
• A student planner is a necessary tool in keeping
  up with daily assignments for Academic Coaching
  students.

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Lets get organized!!!
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Whats organizing ?

• Academic coaches help students gather the who,
  what, when, where, why, and how of academics for
  success!
• Academic coaches help students keep up with
  materials and assist then in discovering the best
  way to do this.
• Students learn the importance of placing
  materials where they can easily be referred to
  when needed.

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Academic Coaches use All Kinds of Minds
techniques in developing individual student
plans The old adage different strokes for
different folks certainly applies to students
who work with Academic Coaches A special
teacher/student relationship often develops
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To make progress, changes must take place

• If you always do what youve always done then you
  will always get what you always got!

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Having an Academic Coach can help relieve the
stress a student often feels.
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Is Academic Coaching for you?

• Think about everything you have seen and read in
  this presentation
• Accept the help that is offered you via the
  Academic Coaching program
• Move toward the future knowing you have a
  fantastic support system